Two States = Lasting Peace

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The International Community and the Stark Contradictory Between Speech and Reality

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South Eye | Report - Exclusive

Despite the growing international rhetoric that implicitly acknowledges the right of the people of South Yemen to self-determination — and with international organizations such as OIPM declaring the unification agreement null and void — the political and field realities remain starkly contradictory. Systematic policies aimed at subjugating the South are still in place, often reinforced by international silence or indirect complicity. This contradiction is most evident in the continued support for corrupt and failed figures within the remnants of the Yemeni government and in the international community’s complacency towards the economic and service collapse in southern provinces, while simultaneously promoting conditions that recycle the same northern-centric power structures.

This divergence between international statements and actual practice is viewed in the South as a political and humanitarian betrayal. It reinforces the perception that some powers continue to treat the South from their own narrow interests only. As this double standard persists, it becomes imperative for the South to reconsider some of its international alliances.

In this context, the importance of regional allies — particularly the United Arab Emirates — becomes increasingly evident. The UAE has provided genuine support to the South, whether in securing the security landscape, developing infrastructure, or adopting a realistic approach to counterterrorism and stability in Bab al-Mandab. Nevertheless, the South must now expand its network of partnerships eastward — toward major powers that operate on pragmatic foundations, such as China, India, Russia, South Africa, and the Central Asian republics.

These countries do not evaluate issues through a Western ideological lens but through interests and geopolitical balances — which opens a valuable opportunity for South Yemen to present itself as a reliable stabilizing force in a volatile region. With a strategic maritime location, rich natural and human resources, the South has the potential to attract these emerging powers into a more balanced and fair equation.

Therefore, the solution does not lie in retreating or severing ties with the international community, but rather in leveraging this contradiction as a form of soft power — coupled with a reframing of the Southern discourse in the language of shared interests, regional security, and investment opportunities. South Yemen must present its cause as a force for stability, as it always proves.

The most important message that must reach the international community is that policies of marginalization, coercion, and economic warfare against the people of South are no longer viable. The South is pursuing to restore the sovereign state governed with competence, responsibility, and a commitment to respecting the will of its people while offering equitable and principled international partnerships, and for sure the people of South will ever and never stop or give up untill the fair popular legal historic national southern goal is completely achieved (A Full Sovereign Independent Southern State, on its international recognised borders pre-1990).